T/A LED third brake light
Those piranha leds are f'n awesome... they show up nicely during the day... I made my own brake light but my housing was so thrashed it didnt shine through very well... it was cheaper to buy the ebay one and it looks good... I got mine clear and tinted the top only...
This is what it is. My friend and I make all kinds of things this way. We did my sidemarkers the same way the other day. We just retrofit them into the stock housings and seal them up then make connectors. They are all plug and play so no need for butchering up wires or anything.
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Those piranha leds are f'n awesome... they show up nicely during the day... I made my own brake light but my housing was so thrashed it didnt shine through very well... it was cheaper to buy the ebay one and it looks good... I got mine clear and tinted the top only...
I can work something out. Shoot me a PM if you want 
I can take some tomorrow. I have been busy with work lately. Holiday shopping working retail sooo much fun.
I can take some tomorrow. I have been busy with work lately. Holiday shopping working retail sooo much fun.
Wasnt doubting their brand.. superflux and piranha are made by the same manufacturer... ETG.... Philips doesnt make them, they own (owned) the company who does.. ETG, but you get my point. You pay for a name, not quality. I use Piranhas and they are cheap cheap cheap...superbrightleds gets all their **** from them...
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/ma...icle-15496.wpd
Wasnt doubting their brand.. superflux and piranha are made by the same manufacturer... ETG.... Philips doesnt make them, they own (owned) the company who does.. ETG, but you get my point. You pay for a name, not quality. I use Piranhas and they are cheap cheap cheap...superbrightleds gets all their **** from them...
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/ma...icle-15496.wpd
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/ma...icle-15496.wpd
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Here is a vid of the sidemarkers. Ignore the music in the background. I was cleaning the gargage and had the radio on and forgot to turn it off
Here is a vid of the sidemarkers. Ignore the music in the background. I was cleaning the gargage and had the radio on and forgot to turn it off
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Wasnt doubting their brand.. superflux and piranha are made by the same manufacturer... ETG.... Philips doesnt make them, they own (owned) the company who does.. ETG, but you get my point. You pay for a name, not quality. I use Piranhas and they are cheap cheap cheap...superbrightleds gets all their **** from them...
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/ma...icle-15496.wpd
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/ma...icle-15496.wpd
Lumiled is a division of Philips lighting which have a wide variety of leds for automotive use. If you read some of the articles on the philips website they even mention other company brands such as Piranha that copy the square design.
You do not get the detailed data sheets and correctly matched bins with the cheap Piranha leds as you do with the Lumiled. So you basically get leds thrown into a bag and sold. This may cause different intensity or color between leds.
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Lumiled superflux and Piranha are not the same. You do have the correct article that Philips sold Philips Enabling Technologies Group to VDL Groep. They are now called VDL ETG which is based in Netherlands. Now this is where I think you are confused. The company that makes the Piranha leds are called ETG which is based in the China mainland. Both are two different companies.
Lumiled is a division of Philips lighting which have a wide variety of leds for automotive use. If you read some of the articles on the philips website they even mention other company brands such as Piranha that copy the square design.
You do not get the detailed data sheets and correctly matched bins with the cheap Piranha leds as you do with the Lumiled. So you basically get leds thrown into a bag and sold. This may cause different intensity or color between leds.
Lumiled is a division of Philips lighting which have a wide variety of leds for automotive use. If you read some of the articles on the philips website they even mention other company brands such as Piranha that copy the square design.
You do not get the detailed data sheets and correctly matched bins with the cheap Piranha leds as you do with the Lumiled. So you basically get leds thrown into a bag and sold. This may cause different intensity or color between leds.
So the ETG that makes Piranhas and the ETG that Philips sold are not the same company? It is my understanding that the technology is the same, a SMD with a projector lens over it? Either way, I do not feel the price difference is justified, especially since 99% of the time, the leds sit behind some sort of tinted/textured material so any variances are mostly unnoticeable. I guess in the end, its all personal preference. I will say this, If they can fool me, and I am what I consider an "above average informed" user, then there are a lot of others who 'think' they are getting lumiled but are likely to get the knockoffs and never know the difference....
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Actually yes you can see it with the human eye. Behind a diffused lens it won't be noticeable as they just blend together but there are many cars on the road with clear lenses that each individual led can be seen so each led has to match. Have you ever put two bin codes next to each other and notice the difference?
Yes the technology is the same but would you want your tools made in the U.S. where you know it is qaulity or in China where the tools have a known failure rate? The same can be said about leds. Also to clarify a smd is a package type. It is the diode that is in the led.
Here is ETG that philips sold
http://www.vdletg.com/
Here is China ETG
http://www.etgtech.com/
Yes the technology is the same but would you want your tools made in the U.S. where you know it is qaulity or in China where the tools have a known failure rate? The same can be said about leds. Also to clarify a smd is a package type. It is the diode that is in the led.
Here is ETG that philips sold
http://www.vdletg.com/
Here is China ETG
http://www.etgtech.com/
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What would work better is some plcc2 or other smd leds running the width of the sidemarker so it would be evenly lit. I didn't have any on hand at the time that's why we went with the lumileds.
Yeah, there isn't enough room inside to actually fit a whole board inside. Mine are 4 LED's on a board that is about the size of a quarter. It is a hot spot that's why the I couldn't get pics lol. They are better than the stock bulbs. IMO they look like the sidemarkers that are on semi trailers. You know what I mean? You can see the individual lights with the naked eye. They aren't blobbed together like the camera makes them out to be.
